Leaving Venice

Thursday

We are on the high speed train about to leave for Florence.  I am struck again and again with how unfriendly Venice is to tourists.  There were no ramps into the train station for luggage, limited seating in the train station while you wait for your trains and very limited luggage storage area on the train itself.  Basically it feels like this is designed for locals (and possibly Italian visitors).  For everyone else, no accomodations are made. 

The signs in the train station were good, though.  It was relatively easy for us to find when and where to board our train.  And the train is quite clean and comfortable.  It’s a high speed train – 2 hours to Florence.  So that will be nice.

The train is leaving now.  They do seem to be quite scrupulous about running on time (both the trains and the busses).  That is very nice.  The busses stations show when the busses will come but are quite ambiguous about direction. How hard woud it be to number them 2A for clockwise and 2B for counterclockwise ? Even though they cover the same stops, they are NOT the same route!